Revue de presse de l'achat responsable: 2013 à aujourd'hui

IS 'MADE IN THE USA' REALLY THE MOST SUSTAINABLE WAY TO MANUFACTURE?

Date : 2014-03-27

Composantes : Analyse et mesure

The move to re-shore US manufacturing faces significant hurdles. In January, the Institute for Supply Management, a nonprofit tracking the health of the US manufacturing sector, reported that its primary measure, the Purchasing Managers Index, had fallen from the previous month. Yet the 254,941 US manufacturers (according to the last census) show promising signs of growth. In 2012, General Electric brought its refrigerator and water heater production back from China to a Louisville, Kentucky, plant. that same year, Caterpillar opened a new Texas facility to make hydraulic excavators. This February, the Walmart Foundation pledged $10bn to support domestic manufacturers and announced plans to buy
$250bn worth of American-made products in the next decade.